TechHive: Phishing increase builds on hijacked brand names, study reports

TechHive TechHive helps you find your tech sweet spot. We guide you to products you'll love and show you how to get the most out of them.

Ready to move beyond the basics? Enroll in this advanced DSLR course to explore more creative scenarios, image editing, and videography. From our sponsors

Phishing increase builds on hijacked brand names, study reports Nov 10th 2013, 15:14, by Antone Gonsalves, CSO The number of brands used in spoofed emails that trick people into visiting malicious Web sites or clicking on malware attachments rose in the second quarter, an indication that phishers are hijacking the good names of businesses from new markets, a report says. The number of unique brands owned by businesses and other organizations that were hijacked by phishers reached a record 639 in the quarter ended in June, according to the latest Phishing Activity Trends Report published this week by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The previous high was 614 in the fourth quarter of 2012. "The landscape continues to evolve as fraudsters seek new victims in untapped markets by targeting more brands," Ihab Shraim, contributing analyst and chief information security officer for MarkMonitor, said in the report. Brands within the payment and financial services industries remained the most popular, used in three-quarters of attacks. Hijacked payment services brands were the favorite at 48 percent. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: phishing-100034884-small.jpg

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

• Tweet
• Share
• Share
• Share
• Share

Sign up here with your email